The plane for Samoa departed in the afternoon. That gave us time to do some additional site seeing. The most important visit was to a site overlooking the largest volcanic crater on the island. It is one of those views that gives you an idea of how unique this island is. The island is entirely a product of geologic activity. Natural forces made it into something, humans arrived, did some amazing things and then fouled their nest.
So how did anyone find a remote island like this? They were not stupid and weren’t just lucky. They were so in tuned with the ocean, the tides, the wave swells, the cloud formations, flotsam and the flight of the birds that when they set out for an unknown island the had a very good idea of where they were going. They didn’t need satellite pictures, compasses and GPS to find what they were looking for. At any given time they were most likely relying on at least 10 sources of sensory inputs to determine their direction.
The crater of the volcano. There is collected fresh water in the crater.
Our Luxury Liner, the “Explorer”.